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• Revealing mistakes: The copper bar wrapped around Storm's neck in the Statue of Liberty is wrinkled, and is obviously a painted piece of foam rubber. The bars also bend far too easily.
  
  
• Continuity: During the long shot of Mystique driving the boat to the Statue of Liberty, you can see the head of someone below the window. That is reportedly the boat captain, who was in a different place in close-ups.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolverine's car hits the tree, front window gets smashed out of the car. In subsequent shots, the window is only damaged and is back in its place.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: In the Statue of Liberty, after Toad spits his slime on Jean Grey and he falls, you can see the rope that was holding him up and where it connects on his back.
  
  
• Continuity: Character Henry Peter Gyrich's last name is incorrectly spelled Guyrich in the end credits.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Toad is struck by lightning, the lightning hits the pole first, and then electrocutes Toad. While the pole is grounded, there is enough power in a lightning strike that the field would still affect Toad (though not as visibly as shown). In addition, Storm does, after all, have some control over lightning.
  
  
• Continuity: The star on Magneto's father's coat at the beginning changes sides from the left to the right.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Various differences from the comic books. These are, by policy, not considered errors; it's mentioned here only due to the volume of submissions.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of sun hitting Senator Kelly in the helicopter scene with him and Mystique.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolverine is thrown off the head of Statue of Liberty, he stops himself by hanging on his claws; at that moment, they pierce through the head near Jean Gray and Cyclops who are trapped inside near the top. In one of the next shots we can see Wolverine hanging on his claws much lower in the head - somewhere around the ears and the chin of the Statue.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The camera is visible in Cyclops' glasses when he is in Logan's room and says, "Oh, and Logan: stay away from my girl."
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sabertooth falls off the Statue of Liberty he falls through the metal roof of a boat. Closer examination of the way it breaks and the color shows that this is not metal but thin plywood.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight atop the Statue of Liberty, Sabretooth throws Wolverine away from the statue's crown. In the next shot, their positions are reversed, with Wolverine's back to the crown.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolverine swings around the spike on the crown of the statue with his claws, he lands with his right hand held forward, claws unsheathed. In the next shot, his left hand is held forward just before he leaps.
  
  
• Continuity: In one shot, Logan is smoking a cigar and his truck window is up. In the next shot, outside the truck, his window is down. Inside the truck in the next shot, his window is once again up.
  
  
• Continuity: After Magneto has Wolverine magnetically stuck to wall inside the Statue of Liberty's head and says, "Let's point those claws of yours in a safer direction", Magneto makes Wolverine's arms face down across his chest and they're held in place by metal braces. But in the next shot, we see Wolverine's arms are seen folded across his chest facing up instead.
  
  
• Continuity: After the bar fight, Logan drives off; as he stops, the tires leave snow tracks. As he starts up again, and before the snow could have buried them, they disappear.
  
  
• Factual errors: The straps inside the Statue of Liberty that hold the skin of copper to the iron frame were originally iron, then were replaced with stainless steel during the refurbishment. At no time were they green as shown.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Magneto tells Prof. Xavier that the plastic prison won't hold him and the war is coming, the shot from behind Magneto's head shows his mouth still moving, even though he has stopped speaking.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Mystique as Bobby Drake approaches Rogue to warn her away from the school, Rogue clearly mouths the word "Shawn" but her voice says "Bobby".
  
  
• Continuity: Orientation of Magneto's helmet on the desk during the first scenes in the Brotherhood's lair.
  
  
• Continuity: Mystique pushes Senator Kelly back after he yells, and when he lands against the seat we see her right foot wrap around the back of his head. In the next shot, her foot is just starting to move around to his head.
  
  
• Continuity: In early scenes the filmmakers went to some effort to make Cyclops appear taller than Wolverine, but about half way through the film they just stopped, and suddenly Wolverine appears considerably taller than Cyclops (consistent with the difference in height of the actors themselves).
  
  
• Continuity: When Xavier and Magneto are in the plastic prison, the chess pieces on the board change between shots after the guard comes in.
  
  
• Factual errors: Stuntwoman Kathryn Anderson's name is misspelled in the end credits as "Kathyrn".
  
  
• Continuity: When Magneto concedes that he has been checkmated and knocks the king over, a pawn that was in the previous view of the chessboard is missing but the knight still holds it to checkmate.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the train station, as Sabretooth is coming up behind Storm at the ticket window, he throws the guy behind her out of the way. The line attached to the stuntman is visible in this shot as he is yanked out of the way.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The chain-link fence door is very "floppy" when Mystique hits Wolverine with it in their final fight.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolverine stabs Rogue, his claws go through the front and out the back. She heals herself using Wolverine's powers, but there is no blood on the front of her night gown and the fabric is still whole (where the claws went through).
  
  
• Factual errors: Near the end Wolverine touches Rogue in hopes to heal her. It finally works, but all of Wolverine's injuries from his fight with Sabertooth reappear. Rogue only takes on other mutants powers for a short while. Wolverine's injuries should not have come back since they were already healed.
  
  
• Continuity: During Logan's nightmare scene in Xavier's mansion, when Rogue walks into the room, his sheets are pulled up to his armpits, but as she approaches the bed and the camera angle changes the sheets move to about his waist, too quickly and too neatly to have been thrown there during camera movement.
  
  
• Continuity: When Logan puts his arm around Rogue while they are on the train, he puts his hand on her shoulder. In the next shot his hand is on her head.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jean Gray is checking Logan after the fight you can see a pink bra under her jacket. The camera then switches to Logan and when it returns to Jean Gray the bra is missing and her coat closed up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Rogue and Bobby are sitting on the bench talking, Rogue's hair keeps switching from being behind her shoulder and then in front of her shoulder.
  
  
• Plot holes: Professor Xavier can't use Cerebro to locate Magneto because Magneto's helmet blocks his telepathy, but he could easily use Cerebro to find Toad, Mystique, or Sabretooth.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolverine says to Sabretooth "I'm not finished with you yet", he points with his middle claw, but in the next shot, he's pointing with all three.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Magneto is able to move metals such as lead and copper, but these metals are not magnetic.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Wolverine says the lines "Now look, kid, I don't need advice on auto..." before hitting the tree, he lets his Australian accent slip.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the comics (or any accurate biography of Wolverine / James Howlett) it is said that he can only release or retract his claws when his wrists are flush with his fore arms, and he can move his wrist freely before and after the process. Yet in the Statue of Liberty Magneto points Wolverine's hands towards him which in turn keeps his knuckles against his chest and his elbows facing down. This would mean that Wolverine's claws would not be able to come out at all as his claws cannot be released through his wrists (although in a situation such as this even that would have been pointless).
  
  
• Continuity: When Cyclops blows open the door in the Statue of Liberty, you can see that he is not wearing gloves. In the next shot, with his hand still on his visor, he is wearing gloves. In the next shot when he sees Jean in peril, his gloves are off again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolverine is at the mansion after the initial car accident. We see him removing the sticky electrode pads from his chest which leave circular red marks on his skin. These marks remain on his skin for the rest of the shot, though they should have healed seconds or less like his other injuries in film.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Magneto has Wolverine floating in the air at the train station, and the camera zooms into Magneto bending his claws, you can see two Phillips head screws on the palm side of each claw down by his hand.
  
  
• Plot holes: Wolverine's Adamantium plated skull has discontinuity across X-men, X2 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. X-men: a total body scan reveals that Wolverine has Adamantium plating to his entire bone structure Adamantium is indestructible, X2: Wolverine receives a shot to the head, "killing" him, but the bullet should have pinged of the Adamantium in his head, X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Wolverine receives an Adamantium bullet to the head thus creating the hole for the bullet in X2 but the bullet should have bounced off his skull undamaged as even Adamantium cannot damage Adamantium.
  
  
• Continuity: On one instance between Magneto and Wolverine, Magneto appears to bend Wolverine's claws which miraculously return to their original state in a later scene, however this shouldn't be possible as Wolverine's claws are Adamantium coated.
  
  
• Continuity: Anytime Rogue takes Logan's powers, it causes him to fall unconscious, however after Magneto has transferred his powers to Rogue on the Statue of Liberty he still has enough power to fight Logan.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Wolverine goes to get Rogue from the train station, Magneto appears and bends Wolverine's claws. You can clearly see screws holding the claws together.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Wolverine's hands never bleed when the claws come out, which can be seen as an error, as all his other wounds bleed. However, in "Origins," it is revealed that he had natural claws even before the adamantium was added. Therefore, his claws may not be considered a wound.
  
  
• Continuity: The sharpness of Logan's claws changes to suit the situation in different scenes. The claws easily slice though the metal wire fence when fighting Mystique but he is able to pull her towards him with the metal chain stuck on his claws without slicing through the chain. (Also, when on the Statue of Liberty his claws slice easily though the spikes on the statue's head but when he is climbing up the side with his claws they only puncture the statue they don't slice though it once they're in, even though all his body weight must be hanging on his claws alone.)
  
  

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